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Presentations and workshops this summer
The Library of Science is also offering workshops and presentations during the vacation season: you can sign up for a workshop on EndNote or Zotero, a presentation on Copyright in Education or Open Access, or get help with your literature search.
Opening hours Library of Science summer holidays
From Friday 11 July through Sunday 31 August, the Library of Science will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Evening and weekend openings are cancelled during this period. The library will be closed on Friday 18 July.
Exhibit in Library of Science: Flora’s Art
You can admire a new exhibition in the Library of Science: FLora's Art. It follows botanical representation from Medieval and Renaissance herbals, through 18th century coffee table books, to modern field guides and research tools.
Library of Science opening hours May and June
The Library of Science is closed from Good Friday through Easter Monday and on King's Day.
Be aware of capped open access deals
The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) negotiate 'Read & Publish deals' with academic publishers. Some of these agreements include a maximum number of articles that may be published open access per year — a so-called cap.
Monitoring databases due to political situation USA
Recent political developments in the United States have raised concerns about the continued accessibility of scientific information in databases such as PubMed and GreenFILE.
New exhibition: SOIL
Last Friday the Library of Science opened the exhibition “SOIL,” part of the duo-exhibition of environmental humanities, ‘soil & water’. This exhibit can be found in the display cases in wing 4 of the Library of Science.
Atlas.ti workshop
On 24 April, the Library of Science is hosting a basic Atlas.ti workshop for scientists and students (in Dutch). ATLAS.ti is a software tool for qualitative data analysis and is freely available to Radboud University students and staff.
Photos of FNWI research in Library of Science
Each meeting room in the Library of Science now has a large photo of interesting research that is taking place or has taken place at FNWI. There is also an explanation of the research.
Copyright in education: awareness month
Do you teach? Do you know what you can and cannot share with students via Brightspace? During the Copyright Awareness Month from April 14 to May 16, the Copyright Information Point (CIP) is organizing presentations and contact moments.
All EMS journals open access in 2025
FNWI has a Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement with the European Mathematical Society (EMS). This publisher's journals will become Open Access based on subscription fees paid by FNWI and other institutions.
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Stealth corrections in scientific articles
Radboudumc researcher René Aquarius discovered that scientific articles are sometimes altered without this being disclosed. Together with international colleagues, he authored a paper on this subject that has just been published.
New Open Access agreement with RSC and AIPP
Together with the other Dutch universities and UMCs, Radboud University and Radboudumc are participating in the Read and Publish agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIPP).
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New Open Access agreement with Elsevier and SAGE
Together with the other Dutch universities and UMCs, Radboud University and Radboudumc are again participating in the Read and Publish agreement with Elsevier and SAGE.
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Presentation “Publishing in Open Access”
On Monday 24 March from 12:30 - 1 p.m., Esther Tijchon will give a presentation on publishing in open access. The presentation will take place in the Library of Science, HG00.218.
Extra workshop “GenAI basics”
The Library of Science has scheduled an additional workshop on Tuesday 18 February at 1 p.m. on the basics of generative AI (GenAI) such as ChatGPT.
New acquisitions Library of Science - January 2025
An overview of a few new publications added to our collection.
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Mini workshops “Generative AI”
The University Library is organising mini workshops on 14 and 28 January about generative AI (GenAI) such as ChatGPT at the Faculty of Science. Learn how to use these tools to search literature, work more efficiently and enhance your research.
Faster review for Journal SYNLETT
SYNLETT is now integrated as a destination journal for authors publishing preprints via ChemRxiv. Working with 'Select Crowd Review' significantly shortens the review process, allowing your paper to be published more quickly.
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